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The 10th ASEAN and Japan High Level Officials Meeting
on Caring Societies
25 October 2012
Tokyo, Japan
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand
ILO advocates for job-rich, employment-led reconstruction efforts.
- Jobs = Key to sustainable and successful recovery
- Reconstruction by people themselves
Decent work and natural disasters
Outline
1 ILO’s assistance in post-disaster reconstruction
- Policy development
- Technical cooperation projects
2 Towards inclusive reconstruction
- International protocols
- Gaps in policy and actions
- Findings from Tohoku, Japan
3 Inclusive reconstruction: HOW?
- Key principles generated from disability inclusion programmes
1. ILO and Post-disaster Reconstruction
The UN Policy on Post-conflict Employment Creation, Income Generation and Reintegration
– First UN System-wide policy on post-conflict employment issues
– ILO and UNDP led the development process
– Joint efforts of 19 UN agencies, programmes and funds including the IMF and World Bank
– Approved by the UN Secretary General in May 2008
Available at: http://www.ilo.org/employment/Whatwedo/
Publications/lang--en/docName--WCMS_117576/index.htm
1. ILO and Post-disaster Reconstruction
Workers from local communities pouring concrete
to pave a village path, Myanmar
A tsunami survivor rebuilt his coffee shop after an ILO business
training programme and financial support, Indonesia
Technical Cooperation and Policy Advice
Track A (Individuals)
-Emergency job creation
-Setting up emergency employment centres
-Providing short-cycle skills training
Track B (Communities)
-Providing skills and entrepreneurship training
-(Re)building community-based organisations
-Providing business recovery support
-Community contracting
Track C (Nation-wide)
-Developing the private sector
-Enabling business environment
-Developing social protection system
1. ILO and Post-disaster Reconstruction
Research
Post-disaster Employment and Labour
Policy Measures in Japan
-Conducting research on employment-
focused disaster recovery efforts both by
the public and private sectors
-Generating lessons learned and good
practices
-Disseminating and sharing findings as
international knowledge resources
-Japan: The main case study
- High rate of the disabilities and
elders among the victims
- Reconstruction in aging society
- Comprehensive public policies
- Private sector’s efforts
Sign indicating a direction to a temporary vendor shop
selling fuel and reconstruction materials, Minami-sanriku,
May, 2011
“Japan as One” Work Project
Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
Outline
1 ILO’s assistance in post-disaster reconstruction
- Policy development
- Technical cooperation projects
2 Towards inclusive reconstruction
- International protocols
- Gaps in policy and actions
- Findings from Tohoku, Japan
3 Inclusive reconstruction: HOW?
- Key principles generated from disability inclusion programmes
2. Towards Inclusive Reconstruction
International Protocols
Disabilities
• ILO Convention 159 “Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons)”, 1983
• UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006
Elders
• UN Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (2002)
Principle: Mainstream concerns and needs of the disabled and the elders need (NOT to segregate them)
2. Towards Inclusive Reconstruction
Gaps in Policy and Actions
1 Few data on the vulnerable populations (e.g. the disabled, elders, migrant workers, as well as those in the informal sector)
2 Silent populations: “Our need is not a priority”, Survivors’ guilt
Shinsai Shogaisha (“Disaster PwD”), Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, 1995 – The issue surfaced 16 years later.
3 Few agencies dedicated to the elders
4 Very few assistance efforts on their livelihoods
2. Towards Inclusive Reconstruction
Preliminary findings from Tohoku, Japan
• Active and well coordinated NGOs for the disabled
Challenges
• Disaster-related death – 90% are those of 70 y.o above
• Hard to find and reach beneficiaries
• Livelihoods and employment
Needs
• Flexible modification of existing regulations
• Multi-year budgeting to mainstream disabilities
• Guidelines for future disasters
• A coordinating mechanism similar to a UN Cluster
Outline
1 ILO’s assistance in post-disaster reconstruction
- Policy development
- Technical cooperation projects
2 Towards inclusive reconstruction
- International protocols
- Gaps in policy and actions
- Findings from Tohoku, Japan
3 Inclusive reconstruction: HOW?
- Key principles generated from disability inclusion programmes
Barriers
Types of barriers
• Physical
• Information and
communication
• Legal and
institutional
• Negative attitudes,
negligence and
assumptions
Principles for Removing Barriers in
Reconstruction
1. Ask disabled people what they need
Principles for Removing Barriers in
Reconstruction
2. Team up with medical colleagues
Principles for Removing Barriers in
Reconstruction
3. Include into mainstream programmes (Separate services can be ineffective and expensive)
Principles for Removing Barriers in
Reconstruction
4. Ensure access to facilities, services and
information
Principles for Removing Barriers in
Reconstruction
5. Work with community: family, friends,
other community members
Pre-programme assessment
• Disability disaggregated data
– Impairment
– Supports needed, if any
– Abilities
– Willingness to take part in training or economic activities
• Allocate budget
• Link up with other
national policies and
programmes
• Send out information
• Build capacity on
disability issues – staff
training
• Private sector – great
ally to train and hire the
target groups
Programme designing, planning
and implementation
Programme monitoring and
evaluation
• Follow-up in the
community:
monitoring for
disability inclusion,
service needs and
supports
• Evaluation of impact:
disability
disaggregated data
ILO Tools on Disability Inclusion Entrepreneurship, Small Enterprise Development and Rural
• Count us in! How to make sure that women with disabilities can participate effectively in mainstream women’s entrepreneurship development activities. ILO, Geneva, 2008. ISBN 978-92-2-121718-3; 978-92-2-121719-0 (web). PDF: http://www.ilo.org/disability
• Replicating success tool kit. A series of tools for replicating the Alleviating Poverty through Peer Training Programme, a grassroots livelihood and small enterprise development project that used peer training as its main delivery mechanism for people with disabilities and others living in remote and rural areas.
• Replicating Success: A manual to alleviate poverty through peer training. ILO Subregional Office through for East Asia, 2009. ISBM 978-92-2-1223993. Also available in Khmer. (Soon to be posted on ILO disability web site)
• Replicating Success: The video, ILO Subregional Office through for East Asia, 2008. Illustrates the APPT project and peer training approach. Also available in Khmer. Contact Disability Hotline.
• Training for success: A guide for peer trainers. Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, 2008. ISBN 978-92-2-120501-2. Also available in Khmer: ISBN 92-2-820501-5. PDF: http://www.ilo.org/disability
• Managing success: An instruction manual for the APPT database and management information system. (Database CD ROM included). ILO Subregional Office for East Asia, 2008. ISBN 978-92-2-120503-6. Also available in Khmer: ISBN 978-92-2-820503-9. PDF: http://www.ilo.org/disability
• Voices of women entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. ILO Skills and Employability Department and ILO Women’s Entrepreneurship Development and Gender Equality, Small Enterprise Development Programme in partnership with Irish Aid. ILO, Geneva, 2008. ISBN 978-92-2-121269-0; 978-92-2-121270-6 (web). - Also individual booklets: (PDFs: http://www.ilo.org/disability) Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia: ISBN 978-92-2-121361-1; Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania: ISBN 978-92-2-121363-5; Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Uganda: ISBN 978-92-2-121365-9; Voices of Women Entrepreneurs in Zambia: ISBN 978-92-2-121367-3;
• Link and learn: Inclusion of women with disabilities in the ILO WEDGE Programme. Progress assessment in four African countries (Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia). Maureen Gilbert. ILO/Irish Aid, Geneva. ILO, Geneva, Nov. 2007. ISBN 978-92-2120179-3 (print); 978-92-2120180-9 (web). PDF: http://www.ilo.org/disability
ILO Tools on Disability Inclusion Formal Sector, Large and Multinational Companies
• ILO Code of Practice: Managing disability in the workplace. ILO, Geneva, 2002. ISBN 92-2-111639-5. (12 CHF). To order: [email protected]. PDFs in English, French and Spanish: http://www.ilo.org/disability (also in Amharic, Arabic, Bosnian, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mandarin, Mongolian, Nepalese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, and Ukrainian.)
• EmployAbility: A resource guide on disability for employers in Asia and the Pacific. Debra A. Perry (ed.). ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 2007. ISBN 978-92-2-119122-3; ISBN 978-92-2-119123-0 (web). Available also as a DVD. PDF: http://www.ilo.org/disability
• VCD: AbilityAsia: Hiring People with Disabilities, Employer Perspectives. AbilityAsia/ILO. ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 2002. See a sample, contact Disability Hotline for copy: http://www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/ability/video.htm
• Unlocking potential: A multinational corporation roundtable on disability and employment - Asia and the Pacific. Proceedings of the Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, 6 July 2005. ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, 2005. ISBN 92-2-1178-21-8. PDF: http://www.ilo.org/disability (meeting document)
Thank you
For more information, please contact: Shukuko Koyama
ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Tel: 662 288 1788, Fax: 662 288 3062
E-mail: [email protected]
www.ilo.org/asia